Blogging About The Truth To Gain Weight & Build Muscle Mass!

With the huge amount of publicity in the last of couple of years via the Major League Baseball steroid scandal certain substances used to build muscle mass and gain weight are now becoming mainstream. One of these is growth hormone, also known as HGH.

Growth hormone is a hormone that’s naturally found in the body. Some claim that this hormone increases the rate of how fast your muscles can recover from intense workout routines, ups the amount of muscle building, allows faster weight gains, and helps burn body fat.

Bodybuilding supplement companies, the bandwagon-jumpers that most of them are, have manufactured different variations of “growth hormone boosters”, hyping them as legal alternatives to the popular muscle building hormone. Most of these products contain an amino acid that reportedly increases growth hormone levels by 100%, called L-arginine.

The question that we have to ask ourselves, however, is if raising growth hormone levels 100% is actually enough to cause significant increases in muscle building and weight gaining. Interestingly enough a gentleman by the name of Jill Kanaley, working out of Syracuse University, noticed that even though arginine can increase growth hormone by 100%, weight training alone can increase growth hormone levels by 300% - 500%! As a matter of fact, combining arginine and weight lifting actually lowers your body’s natural growth hormone levels than what you would get from an intense weight lifting session alone!

This was all demonstrated in Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care.

So, again, like I’ve said in many of my blog posts, articles, eBook, and website, most muscle building and weight gain supplements are nothing but a big waste of money!